160 TEEKONID^:. 



wing-coverts are green in the middle towards the base. Total 

 length abont 10 inches. 



Young. Resembles the female, but has the wing-coverts edged 

 with yellow. 



Hab. New Caledonia, with the Isle of Pines. 



a. Ad. st. Isle of Pines (J.McGillivray). Voyage of H.M.S. 



'Rattlesnake.' 



b, c. Ad. st. et 2 New Caledonia. Purchased, 

 juv. sk. 



d, e. J ad. et juv. New Caledonia. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. 

 /. 2 a( i. sk. Dombea, New Caledonia, Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



{E. L. Layard). 

 ff, h. <5 ad. et 2 Dombea, New Caledonia, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



imm. sk. (E. L. Layard). 



i. S ad. sk. Moindou, New Caledonia, Oct. Tweeddale Coll. 



(2?. L. Layard). 



11. ALECTR(ENAS. 



Type. 



Alectroenas, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 58 (1840). A. nitidissiuia. 



Alectorcenas, Ay ass. Komencl. Zool. Ind. Univ. 



p. 13 (1846). 

 Columbigallus, Des Murs in Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. 



Nat., Ois. vi. p. 31 (1854) * A. nitidissiuia. 



Furningus,De.s' Murs in Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat., • 



Ois. vi. p. 32 (1854) A. madagascariensis. 



Chlamydeena, Bp. Ann. Sc. Nat. (4) i. p. 139, 



n. 1646 (1854) ; id. Consp. An. ii. p. 29 (1854). 

 Chlamydoena, Bp. Compt. Bend, xxxix. p. 879 



(1854) A. nitidissiuia. 



Funingus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 29 (1854). 



Erythrrena, Bp. Consp. Ac. ii. p. 30 (1854). ... A. pulcherrima. 



Erythrcena, Bp. Compt. Bend, xxxix. p. 880 



(1854). 

 Erythrotreron, Bp. (?) Compt. Bend, xxxix. 



p. 880 (1854) ( = Erythrcena). 

 Ervthrokeuia, Bp. (1854), fide G. R. Gr. List 



B. Brit. Mus. Columbre, p. 9 (1856) ; id. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 227, gen. 2263 (1870). 



Range. Confined to the Madagascarian subregion. 



Key to the Species.f 



a. Tail blue, like the back ; neck aud breast 

 grey 

 a'. Crown red pulcherrima, p. 161. 



* Bonaparte (Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 834) states that Lesson established the 

 genus Golumbigailus in 1837, but I have not been able to find where. 



t AlECTRCE.VAS ? RODERICANA. 



Columba roderieana, M.-E. Ann. Sc. Nat. (5) xix. art. 3, p. 1G\ pi. 12. ff. 1, 

 la, 16, 1 c (sternum) (1874); A. Newt P. Z. S. 1879, p. 4 ; Gunth. # 

 E. Newt. Phil. Trans, vol. 168. p. 430 (1879) ; Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 258. 



